The Science of Pain....
What is pain?
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage (Definition according to IASP).
In other words, pain is an alarm.
Research has shown that those who understand the science of pain actually experience less pain. Below are some resources to get you started....
Educational Resources:
Videos
Professor Lorimer Moseley - Why Things Hurt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwd-wLdIHjs
Professor Peter O'Sullivan - Making Sense of Back Pain
The Pain Truth and Nothing But
Taming the Beast (understand pain)
5 minute pain talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_3phB93rvI
The Complexity of Pain:
Pain and Me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUXPqphwp2U&sns=em
Knee Pain - Thinking Outside the Joint:
https://www.facebook.com/noigroup/videos/10154427756748527/
Why Your Knees Crack:
David Butler on Graded Motor Imagery Part 1 (there is also a part 2 and 3 which come up after Part 1)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zWyhpiXy9Ig
What is Graded Motor Imagery
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fWYUJscRBRw
David Butler explains smudging in the brain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QVAY5stO3U&list=PLiHO5DAsV-Ynk0yc6O--m37ZfB2Hslj7k
This page has a few great videos and resources for kids and teens
https://www.painbc.ca/chronic-pain/kids-and-teens
En Français
Comprendre la douleur en 5 minutes
Prof Peter O'Sullivan - Douleur au dos avec sous-titres en français
Comprendre la douleur en 10 minutes
La mémoire de la douleur
Trousse à outils contre la douleur
http://www.paintoolkit.org/downloads/PTK_France.pdf
Websites:
Pain Education
Pain BC
Association Québecoise de la douleur chronique
Pain Tool Kit
NOI Group
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Meditation Apps
Articles:
The Problem with an Entirely Structural Based Approach to Low Back Pain:
Books:
Explain Pain
By: Lorimer Moseley
Why Do I Hurt?
By: Adriaan Louw
Understand Pain, Live Well Again
By: Neil Pearson
My Stroke of Insight
By: Jill Bolte-Taylor
When Survivors Give Birth
By: Penny Simkin
Movies:
The Connection